therein, and I shall deduct such and such from you. If he says: "At a discount of one dirham for every ten," it is disliked, for the reason we mentioned regarding murabaha (profit-sharing sale), yet it is valid; he deducts one dirham from every ten. If the price is one hundred, ninety is binding, and the deduction is ten. Some said: The deduction is from every eleven dirhams, so it would be nine dirhams and one-eleventh of a dirham, and there remains ninety and ten-elevenths of a dirham. This is an error, for this would be a deduction from every eleven, which is not what he stated. As for his saying "at a discount of one dirham for every ten," the deduction is from every eleven dirhams, and the remainder is ninety and ten-elevenths of a dirham. This is the view of Abu Hanifah and al-Shafi'i. It is narrated from Abu Thawr that he said: The deduction here is ten, just like the first [case]. This is not correct; for when he says: "For every ten, a dirham," the dirham is [taken] from other than them. It is as if he said: "From every eleven dirhams, one dirham." And when he says: "One dirham out of every ten," the dirham is from the ten, because "min" (from) denotes partition (tab'id); it is as if he said: "I take nine out of the ten, and I deduct one dirham from them."

Section: If a man purchases half of an item for ten, and another purchases its [other] half for twenty, then they both sell it by way of bargaining (musawama) for one price, it is between them in two equal halves. We know of no disagreement regarding this, because the price is compensation for it, so it is between them according to their ownership share in it. If they sell it by way of murabaha, muwada'a (discount sale), or tawliya (resale at cost), it is likewise, as Ahmad explicitly stated. This is the view of Ibn Sirin and al-Hakam. Al-Athram said: Abu 'Abd Allah, may Allah have mercy on him, said: "If they sell it, the price is between them in two halves." I said: "[What if] one of them gave more than the other gave?" He replied: "Even if the garment is valued between them at the moment equally, the price is between them; because each one of them owns the same as what his companion owns." Abu Bakr narrated from Ahmad another report: that the price is between them according to the proportion of their capital; because a murabaha sale requires that the price be in exchange for the capital, so it is divided between them according